abstract one of the problems in design of irrigation structures is sedimentation control in the inlet to the irrigation networks. water quality for agriculture requires that the sediments be controlled and reduced to the permissible limit at their entrance point to the turnouts and irrigation networks. this is possible by constructing a sedimentation basin. the bigger the basin, the best the re...

298 words) Hospital reform in post-soviet countries: the case of Ukraine and Moldova We can observe nowadays all over the world private companies providing health care services: hospital design, medical equipment, management and consulting. Since 1990, postsoviet states, such as Ukraine and Moldova, have gone through a process of reform of their health care systems. These countries represent a ...

Compositionality and regularity are universals in human languages; in most languages, complex expressions are determined by their structures and their components’ meanings. Based on a multi-agent computational model, the coevolution of compositionality and one type of regularity, word order, is traced during the emergence of compositional language out of holistic signals. The model modifies som...

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This paper, set within the theoretical framework of Construction Grammar, aims to pave the way for a comprehensive investigation of the behavior of Chinese lexical meaning with a focus on word sense and structure sense. Taking a top-down view, we discuss observed nuances in the meaning based on different syntax distributions, and describe the related semantic features, distributions and observe...

The question of how symbol systems can be instantiated in neural network-like computation is still open. Many technical challenges remain and most proposals do not scale up to realistic examples of symbol processing, for example, language understanding or language production. Here we use a top-down approach. We start from Fluid Construction Grammar, a wellworked out framework for language proce...